929 search results for “latin american history” in the Staff website
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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Regilme wins a 2022 Human Rights Publication Accolade from American Sociological Association
Salvador Santino Regilme received Honorable Mention for the 2022 Best Scholarly Article Award from the Sociology of Human Rights Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). He won for his paper “Visions of Peace Amidst a Human Rights Crisis: War on Drugs in Colombia and the Philippines,”…
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Joyce Esser gives lecture on American administrative law during virtual Res Publica study trip
The traditional Res Publica study trip took place this year from 20 to 24 April. Because of the coronavirus restrictions, the members of Res Publica – the faculty’s study association for constitutional and administrative law – travelled ‘virtually’ to Portugal, the United States and Singapore. Of course,…
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How the eating habits of a limited group of Americans determine sustainability
Masses of hamburgers, steaks, cheese and a lot of eggs: Americans love their animal products. But researcher Oliver Taherzadeh discovered that only a relatively small group of high-volume consumers need to modify their diet to achieve an enormous environmental gain.
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Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
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André Gerrits
Faculty of Humanities
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Irene O'Daly
Faculty of Humanities
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Vineet Thakur
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan-Bart Gewald
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Fenneke Sysling
Faculty of Humanities
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Caroline Waerzeggers
Faculty of Humanities
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Giles Scott-Smith
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Kim Beerden
Faculty of Humanities
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Jiyan Qiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Indira Huliselan
Faculty of Humanities
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Bernhard Rieger
Faculty of Humanities
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Briitta van Staalduinen receives Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association
Assistant Professor Briitta van Staalduinen has received the Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association, Section on Class and Inequality. Her dissertation, Ethnic Inequality in the Welfare State, aims to reconcile the persistence of ethnic inequalities in expansive welfare…
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Erik Bähre
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Manuel Cabal Lopez
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Diego Salama
Faculty of Humanities
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Hans Janssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Shenghao Yue
Faculty of Humanities
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Chie Arita
Faculty of Humanities
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Qinggang Hao
Faculty of Humanities
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Berry Dongelmans
Faculty of Humanities
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Carola Hein
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jan Just Witkam
Faculty of Humanities
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Ako Tsujita
Faculty of Humanities
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Thato Magano
Faculty of Humanities
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Hendrik den Heijer
Faculty of Humanities
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Rachel Schats
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jeroen Oosterbaan
Faculteit Archeologie
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Zhengshan Jiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Jacobine Melis
Faculteit Archeologie
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Mariana De Campos Francozo
Faculteit Archeologie
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Manfred Horstmanshoff
Faculty of Humanities
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Suzan ten Heuw
Faculty of Humanities
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Nadia Bouras
Faculty of Humanities
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Carina van de Wetering
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jacky Nieuwboer
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Martine Bruil
Faculty of Humanities
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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Lukas Milevski
Faculty of Humanities
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Mahmood Kooriadathodi
Faculty of Humanities
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Tessa de Boer
Faculty of Humanities
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Alain Wijffels
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Carla Cisternas Guasch receives research grant of the Slicher van Bath de Jong Foundation
Carla Cisternas Guasch, PhD candidate at the Leiden Institute for History, is one of the winners of the 2023 call of the Slicher van Bath de Jong Foundation for the advancement of study and research on the history of Latin America. She receives a research grant of €10.000 (max).
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Digital skills at History
In her teaching, University Lecturer of Ancient History Liesbeth Claes uses various digital tools. Using that experience and interest she started an innovation project in order to research which digital skills history alumni need on the labour market and how these skills can be implemented in the cu…